A rebel group holding a British Islamic State fighter says they have not heard from UK authorities in five months and are now “prepared” to try him in Syria, where many foreign jihadists are receiving only five-year sentences.
Shabazz Suleman, 22, from High Wycombe, Bucks, was caught in mid-October among refugees trying to escape to Turkey and has since been held in a detention centre in Jarablus in northern Syria.
The development comes amid a heated debate over who is responsible for Western fighters captured on the battlefield, with the British government trying to block their return.
“No one has reached out to us about Shabazz,” a security officer from Liwa al-Shimal (Northern Brigade),…
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